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After watching Technology Connections' video on YT about those weird can openers that cut under the rolled lip and don't leave any sharp edges on top, I bought one and use that on every can even if it has a pull tab.
With fingernails. Else, it hurts and smth like a fork, knife can be used
I'm a surgeon, I always use my fingers to open. Been eating canned tuna & sardines for so long, never injured my fingers.
im not a surgeon and i have also never shredded my hands on these. who is injuring themselves on pull tabs???
I'm always careful opening those. Better safe than sorry.
Some people have the manual dexterity of a trex trying to put on a condom
Oh wow. I haven't met those people.
Neither.
I use a knife.
Depends on the tab. Some are not soldered onto the can so I can work with that. For the ones that do, spoons it is.
The hell are you doing that shreds your fingers
Seems like it's been a while since pull tabs in Australia didn't want to rip off your fingernails when you try to use them to open a can.
Fingernails? When young, I sliced my finger with the lid itself and have the scar to prove it.
I'm scared to ask... what... are you using your fingernails for here?
How do you pry these open? The tab in the picture is really tight against the lid of the can. Is there are trick to loosening these without picking at them with my nails?
No, I don't think there is a trick... I just thought you did something weird, because I've literally never hurt myself opening these or even had any problems at all.
I just opened one of these to test. What I do is I use my fingernails to get below the tab, which is extremely easy. The harder part would be to lift it up with my fingernails, which I don't do, instead, after lifting the tab up just a tiny bit with my fingernails, I push my finger further in so that a bit of my flesh goes in between the tab and the lid, which gives me a bit more leverage to lift the tab. I then repeat this one more time, after which my whole finger is in the hole. I can then just remove the lid by holding the can with one hand, then pulling the lid in a 45Β° angle with the finger through the hole.
I just never thought about that there could be a problem opening these and I wondered what exactly you were doing to make it hard.
You put your flesh under there!?
I get what you mean, I do the same, it just sounded weird.
How do you open a jar? Oh, I just use my hand meat.
How do you open a jar? Oh, I just use my hand meat.
Uh. I would never use my raw handmeat to open a jar. I use the power of my mind!
Jars are at less than ambient pressure. There is a constant external net atmospheric force pushing the seal down. I find it most convenient to simply remove that force. I first don a pressure suit. Then, I take the jar and walk into a large walk-in hypobaric chamber I've built right off my kitchen. I enter the chamber, and then wait approximately 20 minutes for the vacuum cycle to bring the chamber to a partial vacuum. The air pressure in the chamber now matches the air pressure in the can. Once the cycle is complete, I effortlessly remove the lid with a gentle twist. Then I wait 20 minutes for the repressurization sequence. I doff the pressure suit and I then continue my cooking.
Don't know about you but my fingers are not made of paper.
So far, even my nailbiting-fingernails always were more than enough to get these open
These things are easy to open, if you're hurting yourself, you're doing it wrong.
I use my fingers but have never had any sort of "shred" occur
I'm not sure I understand how you'd shred your fingers on them. I put my nail under the tab and lift until my finger can get under it
I play the banjo and not the guitar, so I finger pick these open instead of shred.
Since OP uses spoons, you only need to find warshboard and jug players to round out your quartet!
Press down on the metal with your thumb to give it a bend, then pull on the other end with your ring finger. I don't recommend ripping it all the way off. If you can't open this, you need to get a physical job.
I put my foreskin in the tab and pull on that.
This is why circumcision was invented. To keep us from becoming too powerful.
OP needs to hit the gym or something. I've always pulled them with my hand and never had a single issue.
It is not about strength but about getting your finger beneath the tab.
I'm not a total pussy so I jam my buck teeth in there and pry it open with that.
Teeth? What you too good to slide the flat side of your dick under there and think of england like the rest of us?
I just slip my finger under it and pull it back. Easy.
Can opener every time. It sounds strange but it doesnβt leave a lip for things to get caught on when you empty the can
I never ever seen anyone use anything else than their finger to open them. It hurts a little bit I guess but at least for me, it's more convenient than getting a spoon first
I ignore the tab and use an edgeless can opener, in case it gets lost in transit to the recycling plant and a critter finds it.
Finger shred.
Finally a normal asklemmy question
I'm on team OP with this one. My nails are too short and 50% of the time I get a can that doesn't play nice.
Either way I use a non-electric can opener since it's quiet. My cat recognizes the sound of these things.
I often shape and paint my nails and these things chip polish like nothing, so I'll use the teaspoon I have lying out from the last time I made tea, probably.
I'm just going to leave this here.. Best most mundane purchase I've ever made! Regular openers can eat a dick after using this type! https://youtu.be/i_mLxyIXpSY